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To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

Writing; document; scroll. [Obs.] "Of every scrit and bond." Chaucer.

A scroll. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

ales adhering to a surface. There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire Shone with a glossy scurf. Milton.

The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

Armed scythes, as a chariot. Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled. Glover.

n stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

over seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams. Knight. -- Seam set, a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.

iar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.

A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.

A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

d other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

An engraved copper roller used in print works.

e. See under Line. -- Ship pendulum, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent of the rolling and pitching of a vessel. -- Ship railway. (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for repairs. (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overlan…

An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

ll whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.

ocess, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.…